Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B vs Mistral 8x7B

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 61 to 48. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 44.2 against 25.8. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MRCRv2, 77 to 53.

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 32K for Mistral 8x7B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Mistral 8x7B only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Agentic

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.3

Mistral 8x7B

41.1

55
Terminal-Bench 2.0
40
59
BrowseComp
47
53
OSWorld-Verified
38

Coding

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

44.2

Mistral 8x7B

25.8

59
HumanEval
55
46
SWE-bench Verified
28
42
LiveCodeBench
23
46
SWE-bench Pro
28

Multimodal & Grounded

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

60.4

Mistral 8x7B

48.3

55
MMMU-Pro
42
67
OfficeQA Pro
56

Reasoning

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

71.8

Mistral 8x7B

60.3

64
SimpleQA
63
62
MuSR
61
88
BBH
76
77
LongBench v2
57
77
MRCRv2
53

Knowledge

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.8

Mistral 8x7B

48.4

68
MMLU
65
67
GPQA
64
65
SuperGPQA
62
63
OpenBookQA
60
75
MMLU-Pro
65
16
HLE
8
66
FrontierScience
56

Instruction Following

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

86

Mistral 8x7B

78

86
IFEval
78

Multilingual

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

81.5

Mistral 8x7B

72.1

86
MGSM
74
79
MMLU-ProX
71

Mathematics

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

74.6

Mistral 8x7B

68.1

67
AIME 2023
65
69
AIME 2024
67
68
AIME 2025
66
63
HMMT Feb 2023
61
65
HMMT Feb 2024
63
64
HMMT Feb 2025
62
66
BRUMO 2025
64
85
MATH-500
73

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Mistral 8x7B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B is ahead overall, 61 to 48. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MRCRv2, where the scores are 77 and 53.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Mistral 8x7B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.8 versus 48.4. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Mistral 8x7B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 44.2 versus 25.8. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Mistral 8x7B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 74.6 versus 68.1. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Mistral 8x7B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 71.8 versus 60.3. Inside this category, MRCRv2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Mistral 8x7B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.3 versus 41.1. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Mistral 8x7B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 60.4 versus 48.3. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Mistral 8x7B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 86 versus 78. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Mistral 8x7B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.5 versus 72.1. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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